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shannon_aWent to the doctor's again on Friday since I was still having headaches and pressure the day before. I saw a PA rather than my regular doctor and she offered some insight.
First, she seemed much more confident than Dr. G. that I did indeed have a sinus infection and also that it was getting better, which is all around nice to hear.
Second, she said that the antibiotics alone wouldn't do the trick, and I really needed to take a decongestant too, to clear things up. I was a bit more leery on that because Dr. G. didn't say a thing about a decongestant, but I now see some places online that recommend exactly that. In any case I've gamely gone along, and have taken a few little sugary little decongestant pills over the last couple of days.
Among the things I've learned from this: as usual, that the people in Washington D.C. are utter morons. A few years ago they effectively banned the decongestant that people used to use because it's used by some fraction of a fraction of a percent of people to make methamphetamines. They actually just required it to be sold from behind a counter and logged, as if all purchasers were criminals. But that means that all the commercial decongestants went to a different active ingredient so that their product doesn't have to be hidden behind a counter.
And, there's now some debate whether the "new" decongestant works better than a placebo or not.
Taking away something useful to try and keep criminals from using it, even though that'll be totally ineffective. That's been "justice" under the Bush regime. And the morons can't even keep the trains running on time.
In any case, I'm taking the less effective decongestant, and I've been doing pretty decent the last day other than the antibiotic side effects, but then I started taking a better pain reliever too (Alleve).
First, she seemed much more confident than Dr. G. that I did indeed have a sinus infection and also that it was getting better, which is all around nice to hear.
Second, she said that the antibiotics alone wouldn't do the trick, and I really needed to take a decongestant too, to clear things up. I was a bit more leery on that because Dr. G. didn't say a thing about a decongestant, but I now see some places online that recommend exactly that. In any case I've gamely gone along, and have taken a few little sugary little decongestant pills over the last couple of days.
Among the things I've learned from this: as usual, that the people in Washington D.C. are utter morons. A few years ago they effectively banned the decongestant that people used to use because it's used by some fraction of a fraction of a percent of people to make methamphetamines. They actually just required it to be sold from behind a counter and logged, as if all purchasers were criminals. But that means that all the commercial decongestants went to a different active ingredient so that their product doesn't have to be hidden behind a counter.
And, there's now some debate whether the "new" decongestant works better than a placebo or not.
Taking away something useful to try and keep criminals from using it, even though that'll be totally ineffective. That's been "justice" under the Bush regime. And the morons can't even keep the trains running on time.
In any case, I'm taking the less effective decongestant, and I've been doing pretty decent the last day other than the antibiotic side effects, but then I started taking a better pain reliever too (Alleve).